Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Yahui Zhou

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yahui Zhou, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Mr Zhou has served as our chairman and chief executive officer since July 2016. Mr. Zhou has also served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Beijing Kunlun, a global internet company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, since March 2011, and an executive director and general manager of Beijing Kunlun from March 2008 to March 2011. He served as general manager of Beijing JiNaiTe Internet Technology Co., Ltd. from March 2007 to March 2008. From November 2005 to March 2007, Mr. Zhou was an executive officer in charge of new business development at RenRen Inc., a NYSE-listed company. From September 2000 to January 2004, Mr. Zhou was general manager of Beijing Huoshen Technology Co., Ltd. Mr. Zhou received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and his master’s degree in optical engineering from Tsinghua University in 1999 and 2006, respectively.

Chairman of the Board

Chair of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee

Chair of the Audit Committee

Chair of the Compensation Committee

Hongyi Zhou

Director

Hongyi Zhou, Director has been a member of our board of directors since November 2016. Mr. Zhou has twenty years of managerial and operational experience in China’s internet industry. Mr. Zhou co-founded Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. (NYSE: QIHU) and has been serving as chairman of the board of Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. and its de facto successor 360 Security Technology Inc. (SH: 601360). Prior to founding Qihoo 360 Technology Co., Ltd., Mr. Zhou was a partner at IDG Ventures Capital since September 2005, a global network of venture capital funds, where he assisted small- to medium-sized software companies source funds to support their growth. Mr. Zhou was the chief executive officer of Yahoo! China from January 2004 to August 2005. In 1998, Mr. Zhou founded www.3721.com, a company in the internet search and online marketing businesses in China, and served as its chairman and chief executive officer until www.3721.com was acquired by Yahoo! China in January 2004. Mr. Zhou also serves as a director of a number of privately owned companies based in China. Mr. Zhou received his bachelor’s degree in computer software in 1992 and his master’s degree in system engineering in 1995 from Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Member of the Compensation Committee

Han Fang

Director

Member since March 2018

He has been the vice president of Kunlun Tech Limited, which operates as an internet investment corporation, since 2013. Mr. Fang has also served as vice president of Beijing Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd, a global internet company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, since March 2011. He worked from 2003 to 2007 as a senior research and development engineer of Oak Pacific Interactive Corporation, which provides internet services and operates social networks. He also worked as a senior research and development engineer for both AsiaInfo, Inc., a software and IT services company, and Turbo Linux Inc., a linux based solutions provider, from 2002 to 2003 and from 1998 to 2000, respectively. He was employed by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an engineer from 1995 to 1998. Mr. Fang graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, with a bachelor’s degree in nuclear technology.

Lori Wheeler Næss

Independent Director Appointee

Lori Wheeler Næs, Independent Director Appointee. Ms. Næss has been a member of the board since July 2018. Prior she served as a director of the technical department of PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global auditing service provider, leading IFRS reviews for companies listed in Oslo from September 2012 to June 2015. Ms. Næss has also served as a senior advisor of the Section for Prospectuses and Financial Reporting of The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway, a Norwegian government agency responsible for the supervision of financial companies from January 2011 to September 2012. She served as an audit director and manager for US GAAP and SEC Reporting at PricewaterhouseCoopers and its predecessor Coopers & Lybrand at various offices in the United States, Norway and Germany from September 1994 to January 2011. Ms. Næss has also served as a board member and the audit committee chair of Golar LNG Limited, a Nasdaq-listed liquefied natural gas shipping company and its Nasdaq-listed limited partner, Golar LNG Partners Limited, since March 2016. Ms. Næss is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant. She received her bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1993 and her master’s degree in accounting in 1994 from the University of Michigan.

Independent Director

Member of the Audit Committee

Member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee

Trond Riiber Knudsen

Independent Director Appointee

Trond Riiber Knudsen, Independent Director Appointee. Mr. Knudsen has been a member of the board since July 2018. Mr. Knudsen has served as the founder and CEO of TRK Group AS, an Oslo-based investment and advisory firm since June 2015. He worked of McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm and served as a senior partner with responsibility for the company’s marketing and sales practice since August 1992 to June 2015. Mr. Knudsen received his sivilingeniør (equivalent of a master of science degree) in structural engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1987 and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1992.